John C. Maxwell Attitude Quotations

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

Great leaders understand that the right attitude will set the right atmosphere, which enables the right response from others.

Since an attitude is often expressed by our body language and by the looks on our faces, it can be contagious.

Good attitudes among players do not guarantee a team's success, but bad attitudes guarantee it's failure.

When you finish reading the book [Today Matters], take the daily dozen and list them in order of how well you do them. For example, the one that I would put at the highest for me is attitude or relationships because I'm really strong at both of those. At the bottom would be health. What I tell people is, "Take one month and work on one of the daily dozen for a whole year." And so it's really a one-year personal growth plan.

You can't be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.

Leaders don't rise to the pinnacle of success without developing the right set of attitudes and habits; they make every day a masterpiece.

The leader’s Attitude is like a thermostat for the place she works. If her attitude is good, the atmosphere is pleasant, and the environment is easy to work in. But if her attitude is bad, the temperature is insufferable.

Our attitude is the primary force that will determine whether we succeed or fail.

It's easy to have a great attitude when things are going our way...It's when difficult challenges rise before us...that attitude becomes the difference maker.

Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.

Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude.

I remember as a seventeen-year-old kid saying, "If attitude made me captain of this team, I'm going to have a good attitude all my life."

The sum of all your thoughts comprises your overall attitude.

I tell a person, "If I could go home with you tomorrow and you and I could spend the day together from maybe 8:00 to 6:00, and we went out to a restaurant at 6:30, I could tell you with a high degree of accuracy how successful you're going to be." That's huge because I'm just going to look and see, what kind of attitude do you have, how do you relate to people, how well do you prioritize your life? I'm going to see all of those things in the process of a day.

Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.

A person with an outstanding attitude makes the best of it while he gets the worst of it.

Your attitude is like the minds paintbrush. It can paint everything in bright, vibrant colors-creating a masterspiece.

You are only an attitude away from success!

We are either the masters or victims of our attitudes. It is a matter of personal choice. Who we are today is the result of choices we made yesterday. Tomorrow, we will become what we choose today. To change means to choose change.

Attitude: It is our best friend or our worst enemy.

When I was 17, I made the decision to have a good attitude. I was a junior in high school; the coach said I was going to be the captain of my basketball team. I thought - that surprised me because I wasn't the best player. And I kept thinking, "Why am I going to be the captain?" I think everybody else was thinking that too. And the coach then answered, "The reason John is going to be the captain is he has the best attitude on the team. He encourages others, he believes we can win, he never gives up."

Your attitude is either your best friend or your worst enemy, your greatest asset or your greatest liability

All things being equal, attitude wins. All things not being equal, attitude sometimes still wins.

Usually the person who rises within an organization has a good attitude. The promotions did not give that individual an outstanding attitude, but an outstanding attitude resulted in promotions.

Our attitude can give us an uncommonly positive perspective.

Our attitude can turn our problems into blessings.

Our attitude determines our approach to life.

There is no such thing as a perfect flawless attitude.

Our attitude at the beginning of a task will affect its outcome more than anything else.

We are responsible for our attitudes.

If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win but think you can't it's almost certain you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can. A happy person is not a person with a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me.

Adversity is prosperity to those who possess a great attitude.

Our attitudes cannot stop our feelings, but they can keep our feelings from stopping us.

In a word, most bad attitudes are the result of selfishness.

The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So do optimists.

Attitude ... is the prophet of your future.

Attitude ... is the vanguard of your true self.

An attitude is: an inward feeling expressed by an outward action.

An attitude's growth never stops.

Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thought.

The leader's attitude helps determine the attitudes of the followers.

Many people help construct our attitudes at a certain time and place.

The best relationships are win-win. Why don't more people go into relationships with that attitude?

Confidence is a characteristic of a positive attitude. The greatest achievers and leaders remain confident regardless of circumstances.

Changing your attitude from self-centerdness to understanding requires desire and commitment to always try to see things from the other persons point of view.

Rotten Attitudes ruin a team.

Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can reshape and remould himself by altering his attitude.

The size of a person is more important than the size of the problem.

Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance.

I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me.

You see, when our attitudes outdistance our abilities, even the impossible becomes possible.

Your attitude determines your actions, and your actions determine your accomplishment.

We cannot choose how many years we will live, but we can choose how much life those years will have. We cannot control the beauty of our face, but we can control the expression on it. We cannot control life's difficult moments but we can choose to make life less difficult. We cannot control the negative atmosphere of the world, but we can control the atmosphere of our minds. Too often we try to choose and control things we cannot. Too seldom we choose to control what we can ... our attitude.

A leader's attitude is caught by his or her followers more quickly than his or her actions.

Profile of a winning team - They play to win. They have a winning attitude. They keep improving. They make their teammates more successful.

Circumstances do not make you what you are, they reveal what you are.

There is a world of difference between a person who has a big problem and a person who makes a problem big.

Attitude isn’t everything, but it is one thing that can make a difference in your life.

The attitude of the leader affects the atmosphere of the office

Your attitude is a choice.